From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2001-09-06T00:16:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20928] Re: OReilly Ruby book has snail on cover

a picture, and the text
http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/kudu.htm

Tobi

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:


> I discussed with the O'Reilly editor, and somehow the cover animal for
> the "Ruby Essentials" is changed from a snail (Eobania vermiculata
> type of snail) to a kudu.
> 
> ---
> Hi Matz,
> The new animal is a kudu.  It is one of the most striking and beautiful of 
> the antelopes, the greater kudu lives in central and southern Africa, in 
> rocky hill country or on brush-covered plains. Farmers in areas inhabited 
> by the kudu must take into account, when building their fences, the 
> animal's ability to easily leap obstacles 2.5 m in height. The male's 
> magnificent spiral horns can reach up to 168 cm in length and are highly 
> prized trophies. Kudus have also been observed in a form of play, tossing 
> broken branches into the air with their horns and catching them as they fall.



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